Hmm...these pictures look impressive. Why don't you guys try sparring with ironwood or kamagong? How can one know an authentic art when all you guys do is ecourage each other to take meaningless whacks with supple sticks?

el cid, what are you joking here or just a fool? rattan is not a supple stick. and is very durable! iam sitting in a rattan chair i brought back from the philippines 20 years ago maybe youd like a whack by it for effect! your funny!! make another joke!

Anybody been hit with a "supple stick" while training lately? I train in the arts and have yet to leave a training session laughing at my partners ability to cripple me ( if he so chose to) with this girly "supple stick". Please try to fight with this "soft girly stick " before your fingers say something stupid again.

I think I've seen enough damage with one blow done with a rattan stick to the head of someone wearing a fencing helmet. The blow resulted in a KO any follow ups might have resulted in a hospital stay. I think the idea of DBMA and the gatherings is to provide the most realistic sense of fighting without putting your friend in the morgue.

Further I add that if a clean shot to the head of someone wearing fencing helmet can cause a KO then using ironwood or sticks of that type without a helmet could cause paralysis or death or worse *L* That sort action I could only justify using in a REAL situation where my god(creator), family (or the tribe), or my country(and the innocents therein) has been put in danger.

And finally I would just like to unofficially state that you obviously don't understand what the DBMA is all about.

sorry for placing my 50 cents here but I know from experiance that all sticks hurt whether from a soft and supple stick or a ironwood stick and if you think that these guys arnt hitting hard you might offer them a chance to see how well your tech is and how you might be vunrable my advice is that you might think a bit more about this after you might take these men to the cleaners and soak up a shot or two (if your tech is supirior atleast one shot will get through I hope not more acording to your defense) though you do make a intresting point here about using a dencer stick this would increase the injurys and the healing time for most fighters fine if your trying to protect yourself in a last ditch but to your friends hmm hope I dont become your enemy for if you would do this in a setting to test your tech how would you treat youropponent? hmm this is rattling along a bit more than I thought but every one tell us what you think about this post and how this player wants to work his tech would you be nice upon meeting at stick length?

Hmm...these pictures look impressive. Why don't you guys try sparring with ironwood or kamagong? How can one know an authentic art when all you guys do is ecourage each other to take meaningless whacks with supple sticks?

i'll whack u with my long supple stick that spits at the end, el cid!!! come to the gathering next!!! and i'll make u my female doggy!!!

"...it is foolishness and endless trouble to cast a stone at every dog that barks at you."--George Silver, Brief Instructions upon My Paradoxes of Defense, 1599[/i]

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Hmm...these pictures look impressive. Why don't you guys try sparring with ironwood or kamagong? How can one know an authentic art when all you guys do is ecourage each other to take meaningless whacks with supple sticks?

i'll whack u with my long supple stick that spits at the end, el cid!!! come to the gathering next!!! and i'll make u my female doggy!!!